The new price is $6.99. Do you think the previous price was more or less?

After the Southwest's aquifers dry up, then no one will mind if we pave it with solar panels.

I've been following PMOG since its conception. It's a cool idea, but the actual implementation is rather confusing, undocumented, and NOT passive. Everything leading up to PMOG's launch described a "Progress Quest"-like passive web game, but the reality was something much more involved.

@36 - Anonyman: "Reprioritized" does not necessarily mean "deprioritized". Business customer WAN traffic would be reprioritized to a higher priority.

But who do you complain to if you receive rude customer service?

Here are the direct links to the (downloadable) .flv video files. Maybe these are playable for our non-USAian brothers and sisters.

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_earthworm.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_dragonfly.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_bee.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_firefly.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_snail.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_spider.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_fly.flv

http://arco.vo.llnwd.net/o2/cust9/FLV/640x480/original/green_porno/green_porno_mantis.flv

Looks awesome, but the trailer could be tightened up a bit and needs some more drama. The music for the first half worked well, but was a little too upbeat for the second half.

The bird poop seemed out of place (unless the rest of the film is comedic, but that is not implied at all by this trailer).

Good scifi is about ideas, not special effects. The indie scifi film "Primer" was made for just $7,000.

When I visited Costa Rica, I saw a Jamaican man walking down the street wearing a blue speedo and carrying a machete. No one balked.

If Critical Mass really wanted to demonstrate the problems with cars, they should parade their cars around town (slowly) instead of their bikes.

Why does abandoned stuff seem more interesting than stuff thats being used?

It's the lack of people. People ruin everything.

I'd like to see Terry Gross or Larry King interview themselves. They don't actually contribute anything to their interviews.

Naomi Klein is not an economist. Her bio says she is a "former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics", i.e. she gave some guest speeches.

Corporate money cannot be removed from politics until politicians have no power. Even if campaigns had no corporate donations, politicians' powerful influence will be sought through more covert gifts and favors.

If you think the Republicans and Democrats have a strangle hold on third parties, wait until incumbent Republicans and Democrats control the campaign purse strings of the third parties with "public" election financing! They will fund themselves and create bureaucratic mazes to keep out political challengers.

The tipping point will be when vat-grown meat is cheaper per-pound than cow-grown meat. Now that will herald interesting times!

PS - I am a vegetarian.

Dr Michael is hella buff.

I *so* wish the video had sound.

Why would a rich man marry a gold digger 25 years his junior if he doesn't actually want to have sex with her?

I think Fishstique's theory about promoting a play (like the stupid "I Hate You Sarah Marshall" movie) makes the most sense.

Today, I saw the following CAPTCHA on the Perforce Knowledge Base web site:

"BITCHES DRIED"

I had a co-worker who was stuck in our office building's elevator for about 40 minutes. She pressed the "Call Attendant" button and someone from the elevator maintenance company (not the building doorman) answered. The company's records didn't even show that they had a contract with the building. They came to rescue her, but she had to give them driving directions to get to the building! She was remarkably calm and didn't sue anyone.

ywn.

#15

"You're kidding, right? You're problem with this is that the water wasn't sold for fair market value? Are you perhaps missing the point?"

I was only partially kidding. My point wasn't that the water *should* be sold at fair market value. My point was that, given the high value of the water (monetary value and use of the water), should have been a clue that the "seller" was getting a bad deal for $230 and should NOT have sold the water rights.

OnSat did not cut off internet access "because they happen to have the misfortune of living in a country that forces them to stay in designated ghettos in order to retain the right to self-determination".

OnSat cut off internet access because someone didn't pay the bill. How much self-determination does the Navajo nation really have if they rely on Uncle Sam to pay their internet bill?

They should have a contingency plan with at least two internet providers. If one goes down, the other is available. When they're both up, then traffic is load-balanced between the two providers.

Presumably they are not losing money on this, otherwise they would stop.

This is what happens when valuable resources are *NOT* privatized. If Coca-Cola owned this water source, would it sell the water to Nestle for $230? Or if the Nature Conservancy owned this water source, would it sell the water to Nestle for $230? Probably not.

Government-controlled resources will inevitably be pilfered and polluted (using taxpayers' money). See also: Tragedy of the Commons.

> Wake up, people, and take back the federal government.

Rather than taking back the federal government "for good, not evil", let us empower the states in our *federation*. The US was supposed to be a federation of states: 50 (today) legislative laboratories, not the royal families of Bushes and Clintons we have now. Over the years, the definition of the term "federal" became inverted.

My liberal friends complain about the federal government's power and misdeeds, but then believe everything will be solved when "Their Guy" wields that power. Don't they see that power attracts evil and the White House will continue to switch hands between Evil and Less Evil, as long as the power of our nation is housed there?

I'm not liberal; I'm liberaltarian.

A related clever idea: BigChampagne monitors P2P networks and provides weekly Billboard-like charts for media industry companies.

http://www.bigchampagne.com/

So, leonhill, you are telling us that Freedom is Slavery?

This reminds me of the 2007 San Francisco Civil Grand Jury report that 7% of all Californians have a disability placard for their car. (The same report also claims that 15-20% of all Californians over age 5 have a disability.)

http://www.sfgov.org/site/uploadedfiles/courts/Disabled_Parking_Report.pdf

We just need Dean Kamen to create a dirt-cheap desalination system.

Also note that "public, non-profit ownership of waterworks" is NOT the same as universal access to water.

where is "asdf jkl;"?

Imagine how yellow Ray's pee must be.

I'm ok with the GPO printing *blank* passports overseas if it saves the government money. But in this case, the GPO is "making" money at the State Dept's cost. This is like me making a "profit" by borrowing money from myself (with interest!).

Spinobobot: I was with you until the AIs...

The news (and bloggers) spend much time theorizing about the causes of these economic problems, but I haven't read much about what the future looks like. How can a regular Joe with a mortgage and a 401k protect his assets for the next 10 years?

Maybe she was grazing the internets?

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/12/why-were-powerless-t.html

A great place to start delving into indie "story games" is RPG.net's reviews of games that have won the "Indie RPGs" award:

http://index.rpg.net/display-search.phtml?key=award&value=Indie+RPG

My Life With Master has won five Indie RPG awards:

* Best Production 2003
* Best Support Finalist 2003
* Best Synergy 2003
* Indie Game of the Year 2003
* Most Innovative Game 2003

climate change = if the earth gets cooler, it's still your fault.

I was expecting this reading to be about representations of San Francisco in science fiction..

From the video still, I thought this video was about recruiting Donald Knuth to carry the Olympic torch.

Beautiful! Love should hook up with "Dwarf Fortress"!

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/3549/interview_the_making_of_dwarf_.php

Some of those methods look retardedly error prone. Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Africa: I am supposedly talking to you.

Two words: absentee ballot.

Like the bumper sticker on my neighbor's car says: goddamned internet.

I'd hit it.

Oompa-Loompas!

Why would one play this game? It seems pretty inevitable that you will get a pie in the face.

Underground homes are very cool (no pun intended) and do have great insulation. I think the problem is that accessing utility lines and pipes when something breaks.

Kill two birds with one stone: let us nuke the Martian polar ice caps to begin Mars' terraforming and Earth's nuclear disarmament. There is no time like the present.

Lego is just trying to save a few bucks. Germany wanted too much money for the Nazi product placement license.

or just:

OBAMA.

Given the target and the timing of the statement, the author's intended goal is to boost Obama.

#3: Grinding is just how companies get you to stick around for yet another month of subscription fees.

Where do we sign up for West Coast secession?

I think the inevitable Photoshopped pictures will be more thought-provoking.

Deputy Public Services Director Kevin Gagne told News 8 the doughy, 90-foot mass is comprised of grease, flour and rags.

http://www.wmtw.com/news/15130441/detail.html (includes Google Map diagram)

Dr Daystrom's M-5 multitronic computer?

Various global economic bodies are forecasting rises of between 10 per cent and 50 per cent over the next decade.

These numbers don't mean much without context. How much did food (and non-food) prices rise over the past decades?

This Inflation Calculator claims inflation rose 28% from 1996-2006 and 41% from 1986-1996. So maybe "only" a 10% increase in food prices is a good thing?

Environmentalists should be loving this because it will make locally-grown food that doesn't use petroleum-based fertilizers more price-competitive.

(And hardcore environmentalists might enjoy the population reduction.)

I was expecting the holster bags would be *made* from skin graft parts. :\

When I saw this story last week, the "Most Viewed" story (on the right side of the page) was something about some cannibal murderer.

If Lawrence's cable company has a monopoly on ISPs, then where did the Lawrence Freenet get its DSL connections? Choosing internet access from cable, DSL, or ubiquitous satellite broadband does not sound like a monopoly to me.

Why random bar codes to immortalize Falco? Why not use bar codes from his albums?

pimpstar rims = alien technology

wheels, please?

5 dangerous things you should let your kids do:

1. play with fire
2. own a pocket knife
3. throw a spear
4. deconstruct appliances
5. break the DMCA
6. drive a car

Do CFLs contain mercury?

His "bookcase" has no books. He only needs one book: the Bible. And he keeps it on his nightstand.

Are they advocating a loose monetary policy?

#25: I agree the World Wildlife Fund should get a new name, but legally they don't have to.. after suing the World Wrestling Federation and all. I'm sure that lawsuit was a great use of money people had donated.

And then the World Wildlife Fund changed their name anyways: World Wide Fund for Nature. Not that the new name clears up anything..

They should sell laugh track CDs so I can listen to laughter on my commute and all day at work. hmm, that sounds tiring..

btw, Google tells me that IOR and AOG are aeronautical abbreviations for "Immediate Operational Requirement" and "Aircraft On Ground". But can anyone please explain how that would relate to an desk inbox?

If the government can't keep drugs out of their maximum security prisons, why do they think they can keep drugs out of the rest of the country?

With an open WiFi network, aren't you exposing your PC to any neighbor who might want to portscan it? Why rely only on your PC's security protections?

MyHeritage.com has a celebrity face matcher for face photos you upload (free and no registration):

http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php